For over 20 years Heather Wright Wendel, PhD has been studying, implementing, and teaching sustainability. Heather is curious by nature, which combined with her passion for sustainability, has fostered a growing interest on the topic of sustainable happiness.

Heather completed a year-long Sustainably Happy Project in 2017 that allowed her to focus on a different happiness related topic each month, with the idea of discovering the key aspects of life that contribute most significantly to her sense of purpose, well-being, and contentment. Based on her research and own experimentation, Heather has become an advocate and teacher of sustainable happiness and life design. She believes that happiness is a choice and that we all have the ability to create our own sustainably happy lives by taking deliberate and small actions every day.

As a result of her Sustainably Happy Project, in 2020, Heather transitioned from her environmental engineering career to become a small-scale, regenerative farmer in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. When she is not spending time with her Nigerian dwarf goats, free-range chickens, or honey bees, Heather's busy offering farm stays, tours, and sustainably grown or raised products.